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Título: PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS OF OIL WELLBORE STABILITY
Autor: ALLICIA STHEL SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA
Colaborador(es): SERGIO AUGUSTO BARRETO DA FONTOURA - Orientador
VIVIAN RODRIGUES MARCHESI - Coorientador
Catalogação: 24/FEV/2022 Língua(s): PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL
Tipo: TEXT Subtipo: THESIS
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Referência(s): [pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=57512&idi=1
[en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=57512&idi=2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.57512
Resumo:
The stability analysis of a wellbore is an important step to predict the geomechanical behavior of wellbores that will be drilled and for understanding problems that may have occurred in wellbores already drilled (in order to prevent problems from happening again). Many unwanted events that occur during the drilling of a wellbore are due to a bad dimensioning of the mud weight used. Some of these complications can bring on the need to interrupt drilling operation, which causes non-productive time and, consequently, the addition of millions of dollars in the final sum of the expenses of the drilling operation, due to the daily rental of equipment that are not used during the non-productive time. The stability analyzes are widely performed with deterministic methods, which can lead to uncertainties in the final results. This paper proposes a probabilistic wellbore stability analysis based on two different methods: FOSM and SEAM, with the purpose of providing a more realistic mud weight window for the stability analysis along the trajectory of the wellbore. The FOSM and SEAM methodologies were developed in MATLAB code by the author of this study and then it was possible to obtain the collapses and fracture gradients for a project of a wellbore (along its entire trajectory). In the case study proposed, it was possible to observe that the probabilistic results - for a failure probability of 10% - presented a more coherent prediction of the behavior of the wellbore s collapses and fracture gradients than the deterministic results, and hence it can be concluded that some of the problems observed during drilling operation could have been avoided with the use of probabilistic methods.
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